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2217: Crises, What Crises?

Nauro Campos, Cheng Hsiao and Jeffrey Nugent

2216: People's Trust: The Design of a Survey-based Experiment

John Ermisch and Diego Gambetta

2215: The German Labor Market: Still Adjusting Badly?

Werner Eichhorst and Lutz C. Kaiser

2214: Choice, Competition and Pupil Achievement

Stephen Gibbons, Stephen Machin and Olmo Silva

2213: Is Crime Contagious?

Jens Ludwig and Jeffrey Kling

2212: The Economic Determinants of Ethnic Assimilation

Carmel Chiswick

2211: Performance Related Pay and Labor Productivity

Anne Gielen, Marcel Kerkhofs and Jan van Ours

2210: Piece Work Pay and Hourly Pay over the Cycle

Robert Hart

2209: Friendship Ties and Geographical Mobility: Evidence from the BHPS

Michèle Belot and John Ermisch

2208: Does Happiness Adapt? A Longitudinal Study of Disability with Implications for Economists and Judges

Andrew Oswald and Nattavudh Powdthavee

2207: Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap

Andrea Ichino and Enrico Moretti

2206: ICT Use in the Developing World: An Analysis of Differences in Computer and Internet Penetration

Menzie Chinn and Robert Fairlie

2205: Homo Reciprocans: Survey Evidence on Prevalence, Behavior and Success

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde

2204: Education Policy and Intergenerational Income Mobility: Evidence from the Finnish Comprehensive School Reform

Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo and Sari Pekkala Kerr

2203: Income Taxes and the Composition of Pay

Giorgio Brunello, Simona Comi and Daniela Sonedda

2202: Does the Quality of Training Programs Matter? Evidence from Bidding Processes Data

Alberto Chong and Jose Galdo

2201: Liquidity Constraints, Household Wealth, and Entrepreneurship Revisited

Robert Fairlie and Harry Krashinsky

2200: How Do Extended Benefits Affect Unemployment Duration? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Rafael Lalive

2199: Extremism within the Family

Gil Epstein

2198: Fixed and Mixed Effects Models in Meta-Analysis

Spyros Konstantopoulos

2197: A History of Canadian Recruitment of Highly Skilled Immigrants: Circa 1980-2001

Don DeVoretz

2196: Testing Dependence among Serially Correlated Multi-Category Variables

Mohammad Pesaran and Allan Timmermann

2195: Working Hours in Japan: Who Is Time-Privileged?

Scott Fuess

2194: A Search Model of Unemployment and Inflation

Etienne Lehmann

2193: The Erosion of Union Membership in Germany: Determinants, Densities, Decompositions

Bernd Fitzenberger, Karsten Kohn and Qingwei Wang

2192: Is Fertility Related to Religiosity? Evidence from Spain

Pablo Brañas-Garza and Shoshana Neuman

2191: The Effect of Taxes and Bans on Passive Smoking

Jerome Adda and Francesca Cornaglia

2190: Economic, Neurobiological and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America's Future Workforce

Eric I. Knudsen, James Heckman, Judy L. Cameron and Jack P. Shonkoff

2189: Immigration and Housing Rents in American Cities

Albert Saiz

2188: Wages, Employment, and Capital in Capitalist and Worker-Owned Firms

John Pencavel, Luigi Pistaferri and Fabiano Schivardi

2187: Statistical Treatment Choice: An Application to Active Labour Market Programmes

Markus Frölich

2186: The Economics of College Sports: Cartel Behavior vs. Amateurism

Lawrence Kahn

2185: Skill Wage Premia, Employment, and Cohort Effects: Are Workers in Germany All of the Same Type?

Bernd Fitzenberger and Karsten Kohn

2184: Contributions of Zvi Griliches

James Heckman

2183: Intergenerational Transmission of 'Religious Capital': Evidence from Spain

Pablo Brañas-Garza and Shoshana Neuman

2182: Peer Effects, Social Multipliers and Migrants at School: An International Comparison

Horst Entorf and Martina Lauk

2181: Wage Dispersion, Markets and Institutions: The Effects of the Boom in Education on the Wage Structure

Erling Barth and Claudio Lucifora

2180: Changes in the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women: 1980-2000

Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn

2179: Transition with Heterogeneous Labor

Katalin Balla, Janos Köllő and Andras Simonovits

2178: Imports as Product and Labor Market Discipline

Herve Boulhol, Sabien Dobbelaere and Sara Maioli

2177: The Role of Temporary Help Agencies in Facilitating Temp-to-Perm Transitions

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Miguel Malo and Fernando Muñoz-Bullón

2176: The U.S. Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s: Slowing Convergence

Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn

2175: Rottenberg and the Economics of Sport after 50 Years: An Evaluation

Peter Sloane

2174: U.S. Unemployment Duration: Has Long Become Longer or Short Become Shorter?

José António Machado, Pedro Portugal and Juliana Guimaraes Cavalcanti

2173: An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries

Thai-Thanh Dang, Herwig Immervoll, Daniela Mantovani, Kristian Orsini and Holly Sutherland

2172: A Collective Household Model of Time Allocation: A Comparison of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in the Netherlands

Chris Klaveren, Bernard van Praag and Henriette Maassen van den Brink

2171: Shortening the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits Does Not Affect the Quality of Post-Unemployment Jobs: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Jan van Ours and Milan Vodopivec

2170: Trade, Peace and Democracy: An Analysis of Dyadic Dispute

Solomon Polachek and Carlos Seiglie

2169: Effort and Comparison Income: Experimental and Survey Evidence

Andrew Clark, David Masclet and Marie Claire Villeval

2168: Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally-Validated Survey

Marco Caliendo, Frank Fossen and Alexander Kritikos

2167: Re-Employment Probabilities over the Business Cycle

Guido Imbens and Lisa Lynch

2166: Age at Marriage and Marital Instability: Revisiting the Becker-Landes-Michael Hypothesis

Evelyn Lehrer

2165: Why Do Worker-Firm Matches Dissolve?

Anne Gielen and Jan van Ours

2164: Income Taxes and Entrepreneurial Choice: Empirical Evidence from Germany

Frank Fossen and Viktor Steiner

2163: Birth Spacing, Fertility and Neonatal Mortality in India: Dynamics, Frailty and Fecundity

Sonia Bhalotra and Arthur van Soest

2162: Fertility and its Consequence on Family Labour Supply

Jungho Kim and Arnstein Aassve

2161: Institutions, Networks and Entrepreneurship Development in Russia: An Exploration

Ruta Aidis and Saul Estrin

2160: Remittances, Financial Development, and Growth

Paola Giuliano and Marta Ruiz-Arranz

2159: Economic Surplus and Derived Demand

Ekkehart Schlicht

2158: Ten Do It Better, Do They? An Empirical Analysis of an Old Football Myth

Marco Caliendo and Dubravko Radic

2157: Divorce, Fertility and the Shot Gun Marriage

Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano

2156: Corruption and Bureaucratic Structure in a Developing Economy

John Bennett and Saul Estrin

2155: Remittances and the Brain Drain

Riccardo Faini

2154: Does Democracy Foster Trust?

Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler

2153: Naturalisation and Socioeconomic Integration: The Case of the Netherlands

Pieter Bevelander and Justus Veenman

2152: China's Lesser Known Migrants

Deng Quheng and Björn Anders Gustafsson

2151: Base Period, Qualifying Period and the Equilibrium Rate of Unemployment

Elke Jahn and Thomas Wagner

2150: Regulatory Barriers and Entry in Developing Economies

John Bennett and Saul Estrin

2149: From Temporary Help Jobs to Permanent Employment: What Can We Learn from Matching Estimators and their Sensitivity?

Andrea Ichino, Fabrizia Mealli and Tommaso Nannicini

2148: Enterprise Restructuring in Belarus

Marina Bakanova, Saul Estrin, Igor Pelipas and Sergei Pukovich

2147: Gender Differences in Job Separation Rates and Employment Stability: New Evidence from Employer-Employee Data

Anders Frederiksen

2146: A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labor-Scarce Economies?

Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson

2145: Green Cards and the Location Choices of Immigrants in the United States, 1971-2000

David Jaeger

2144: Exploiting Regional Treatment Intensity for the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies

Markus Frölich and Michael Lechner

2143: Control Rights in Public-Private Partnerships

Marco Francesconi and Abhinay Muthoo

2142: Who Pays for Performance?

Erling Barth, Bernt Bratsberg, Torbjørn Hægeland and Oddbjørn Raaum

2141: The Effects of Labor Market Policies in an Economy with an Informal Sector

James Albrecht, Lucas Navarro and Susan Vroman

2140: Does the Liberalization of Trade Advance Gender Equality in Schooling and Health?

T. Schultz

2139: Remittances, Institutions and Economic Growth

Natalia Catrinescu, Miguel Leon-Ledesma, Matloob Piracha and Bryce Quillin

2138: The Wage Curve: An Entry Written for the New Palgrave, 2nd Edition

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

2137: The Intrahousehold Allocation of Private and Public Consumption: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Data

Olivier Donni

2136: Child Work and Schooling Costs in Rural Northern India

Gautam Hazarika and Arjun Bedi

2135: Are New Work Practices and New Technologies Biased against Immigrant Workers?

Michael Rosholm, Marianne Roed and Pål Schøne

2134: Rational Alcohol Addiction: Evidence from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey

Badi Baltagi and Ingo Geishecker

2133: Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth for Chinese Provinces: A Panel Data Analysis

Alice Shiu and Almas Heshmati

2132: Labour Market Signalling and Unemployment Duration: An Empirical Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data

Anders Frederiksen, Rikke Ibsen, Michael Rosholm and Niels Westergård-Nielsen

2131: Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution

Marc-Andreas Muendler and Sascha Becker

2130: On the Identification of Frisch Labor Supplies

Olivier Donni

2129: Choosing Monetary Sequences: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Paola Manzini, Marco Mariotti and Luigi Mittone

2128: Learning from a Piece of Pie: The Empirical Content of Nash Bargaining

Pierre Chiappori and Olivier Donni

2127: Individual Attitudes towards Immigrants: Welfare-State Determinants Across Countries

Giovanni Facchini and Anna Maria Mayda

2126: A Note on Parametric and Nonparametric Regression in the Presence of Endogenous Control Variables

Markus Frölich

2125: Construction Contracts (or: "How to Get the Right Building at the Right Price?")

Surajeet Chakravarty and W. Bentley Macleod

2124: Task Difficulty, Performance Measure Characteristics, and the Trade-Off between Insurance and Well-Allocated Effort

Wendelin Schnedler

2123: Can Risk Aversion Explain Schooling Attainments? Evidence from Italy

Christian Belzil and Marco Leonardi

2122: An Econometric Analysis of the Impact of the Self-Sufficiency Project on the Employment Behaviour of Former Welfare Recipients

Jeffrey Zabel, Saul Schwartz and Stephen Donald

2121: Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger, Aderonke Osikominu and Robert Völter

2120: Kombilöhne und Mindestlöhne als Instrumente der Beschäftigungspolitik – Erfahrungen und Handlungsoptionen

Werner Eichhorst

2119: Punishment, Inequality and Emotions

David Masclet and Marie Claire Villeval

2118: Economic Returns to Communist Party Membership: Evidence from Urban Chinese Twins

Hongbin Li, Pak-Wai Liu, Junsen Zhang and Ning Ma